MJ Knefel @mollyknefel Twitter profile

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MJ Knefel

@mollyknefel

3 months

lol I’m at a Walgreens in my Brooklyn neighborhood that has chosen to lock up nearly 100 percent of the toiletries AND has chosen to take out all the buttons that call someone to open the locks. Congrats, you have created a store that is literally impossible to shop at

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6 years

Can't stop thinking about the fact that Nikki Haley thinks that paying more for childbirth means it must be higher quality, like it's an olive oil

Nikki Haley

@NikkiHaley

6 years

Alright @BernieSanders , you’re not the woman having the baby so I wouldn’t be out there talking about skimping on a woman when it comes to childbirth. Trust me! Nice try though.

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8 years

Critics say Bannon is a white nationalist, while white nationalists say Bannon is in fact a white nationalist

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@mollyknefel

4 years

Perhaps "then an uncontrolled deadly pandemic continued" would be a better way to frame this

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@mollyknefel

2 years

Nothing will ever be as fun as that first night when Trump got it

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@mollyknefel

2 months

No one on the left has forgotten that Kamala is a cop. People are relieved that the Democratic Party, for once, did something slightly better than usual, which is abandon a candidate who was guaranteed to lose to the fascist. It’s not complicated!

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5 years

Until we have universal sex ed, I truly believe it is irresponsible reporting to mention a 6 week abortion ban without including the explanation, "which is actually just two weeks after a missed period" (if that)

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@mollyknefel

5 years

To people who hate Bernie supporters, I just feel like it’s worth emphasizing that a lot of Bernie supporters are absolutely terrified of dying without healthcare. So if some have a chip on their shoulder, it’s because it’s baffling to have to be on the defensive about this.

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@mollyknefel

2 months

Unfortunately as a midwesterner I am very charmed by “Do you put any flavor in it?” “No.”

Tim Walz

@Tim_Walz

2 months

Listen, I’m just not much of a spice guy.

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@mollyknefel

4 years

The problem with the well-meaning argument that poor kids need school to reopen bc that’s where they get support, food, therapy, etc is that of course that is true, and that is an indictment of our political and economic systems, not a reason to open schools in a pandemic

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@mollyknefel

5 years

The most libertarian way to have it. Asymptomatic, probably gave it to a ton of people, got tested because he could

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@mollyknefel

4 years

Less than 3 months ago, we saw mayors’ unwillingness to shut down their cities to save lives, and now, they shut them down within days to criminalize protest.

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6 years

White parents are like “You don’t understand, you’d do anything for your child” when it comes to not sending their kids to a black school. But they look at migrants fleeing Central America and are like “It’s not as bad as the Holocaust, they shouldn’t be doing this.”

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5 years

A new study shows that Bloomberg’s Stop and Frisk lead to fewer black students graduating from high school

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@mollyknefel

6 years

“Stop these 100 companies” > “Don’t have kids”

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@mollyknefel

7 years

Lol at the Republicans who are like, “GOTCHA, Democrat men are harassers too!” when women are like, yes, obviously.

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@mollyknefel

4 years

Remember when the police pepper sprayed a child for being at a Black Lives Matter protest this summer

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@mollyknefel

2 years

I’ve had “top surgery” and two “c-sections”. Guess which two had the most life altering consequences from which my body has never fully recovered

The New York Times

@nytimes

2 years

Adult transgender men's well-being generally improves from top surgery, or breast removal, research shows. Small studies of trans teens suggest similar benefits in the short term, but data is sparse. Some U.S. state leaders oppose the surgery for minors.

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6 months

I actually feel like this type of nepo baby is much more sinister than many Hollywood nepo babies. I'd rather talk about a NYT White House correspondent's son's ability to name names in national magazine than whether or not Maya Hawke is a good actor (she is)

Jake Anbinder

@JakeAnbinder

6 months

You can take issue with the article but it's bizarre that people are calling Peter Baker's son a "nepo baby," a term coined to describe why so many Hollywood stars are children of Hollywood stars. Like, oh no, Theo Baker might enter the lucrative, dynamic world of...journalism?

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4 years

I'm a broken record on this but my elementary school did not have soap in the kids' bathroom up through the second week of March, in New York City, during the pandemic. What has changed for the fall because it's not money or resources.

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6 years

It's weird that Twitter has taught us to assume that when we see a celebrity's name trend they have either died or are racist, and not that they've just been cast in the CATS movie musical

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6 years

I've tweeted about this before but 2 weeks after I gave birth, we got a bill in the mail for 77 thousand dollars, billed to my baby. When they refiled the bill in my name, because I had insurance, it came down to $1500. It wasn't like the $77k one was for a higher quality birth.

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@mollyknefel

4 years

God this is hitting me

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@SarahWaltonNews

4 years

Hospital staff come out to applaud #GeorgeFloyd protestors in New York - demonstrators shout back ‘Thank You’.

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25 days

People acting like “what to do about child care” is rocket science, the answer is fund it. This is literally a problem you throw money at. You hire and train staff, you invest in existing infrastructure and build more, you make it free. Extremely simple.

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4 years

Happy #TransDayofVisibility . I have been IDing as non-binary since last year. I've been struggling with figuring out exactly who I am- pandemic isolation, parenthood, and being in my mid 30s have made it hard. But I wanted to say today that I'm also trans, and my name is MJ.

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2 months

lol I can’t believe these people are like “he said he doesn’t know about spices but here he is mentioning GARLIC POWDER”

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@mannyfidel

2 months

tim walz made a joke about "white people tacos" and the right is treating it like watergate, I've never seen this level of desperation before

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4 years

In November 2009 I got a job as a theater teacher at an after school program. At the end of that year, I realized that I had never, not once, dreaded going to work. I stayed and enjoyed every day, until today, when it ended because the city cut our funding.

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@mollyknefel

7 years

... me."

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

7 years

If a player wants the privilege of making millions of dollars in the NFL,or other leagues, he or she should not be allowed to disrespect....

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2 years

Love a country where teens can’t have top surgery because that’s a big decision but can’t get an abortion if they get pregnant

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4 years

I've never read Harry Potter and I don't care about JK Rowling other than her consistently terrible politics so it's funny to use this as an opportunity to say that I am non-binary but I am

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6 years

Get the good childbirth, it's worth it!

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6 years

@saladinahmed That teen girls can be loud, gross, hyper, childish... I feel like many portrayals of teen girls, they’re always preternaturally mature yet also empty headed at the same time. You never see them like, silly and fun and annoying like kids can be

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4 years

Closing schools during a spiking pandemic is not devaluing children, it is trying to keep their teachers and families alive

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@mollyknefel

5 years

Our cat is sick and I called the vet last night and they said “Let me look up his file, what’s his name?” and I said “Manface...” and before I could finish they said “What’s his last name? There are two Manfaces in the system.”

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3 years

Sure, kids under 5 can't be vaccinated yet, but at least they're really easy to wait on a long testing line with

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4 years

Conservatives: We support LGBT but trans stuff is too much Lil Nas X: Conservatives: You know what you're right, of course we still hate gay people

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@mollyknefel

6 years

I wish someone had warned me when I was younger how often men will insist that you formally debate them

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@RubinReport

6 years

Hi Alexandria, would you like to debate @benshapiro ? I’ll be happy to moderate and donate all proceeds to the charity of your choice.

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4 years

Four weeks ago, I went for a grad school interview at Brooklyn College. I knew it would be the last thing I did for a while. I came back, sent my parents (who watch my kids) home, and haven’t seen anyone who doesn’t live in my apartment since. But I did get into grad school.

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6 years

@MattBinder Live from New York it’s Saturday And

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3 years

Thirteen year olds are babies. I’ve taught them for years and they cry when they get upset, their voices are still changing, they are figuring out how to not be little kids anymore. They are babies.

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3 years

My biggest fear going into top surgery was that I had somehow worked myself up into thinking I wanted this, but maybe I was faking it (??). Basically a TERF living inside my head. But of course that TERF was wrong. I’m 2 days out and already feel happier with my body in every way

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3 years

Haven’t tweeted about this yet but what better time than Mothers Day weekend— in a month, I am getting top surgery! I used this chest to feed two babies and I can’t wait to give it a grateful send off and look closer to the way I’ve always pictured myself.

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6 years

How insulting are these assumptions at play: 1) Midwesterners are so stupid and racist they would never vote for a Latina socialist 2) ppl from the Bronx are so stupid they only voted for a socialist because she is Latina 3) The Midwest is all white 4) The Bronx is all not-white

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2 years

Me: *a lengthy, age appropriate explanation of how the police are not helpers in the way that we see on TV shows* 3 year old: Okay but Paw Patrol isn't about police, it's about dogs

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5 years

Biden’s stance is the same as most liberals if they are honest with themselves: I support integration, but not if white people dont want it (they don’t)

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3 years

The best thing about 2021, after seeing my kids discover the world, was becoming MJ and getting top surgery. Every single time I see a picture of myself since I got it I feel happy. Wishing this feeling in 2022 for anyone else who needs it.

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4 years

Me: asleep Husband, whispering as he comes to bed late: Trump has it Me:

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5 years

People do not know how the pregnancy weeks count works. I didn't until I was 31 years old, trying to get pregnant. And while obviously people should have a right to abortion whenever they need, the pro-life side benefits from the lack of knowledge

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8 years

A million bucks says none of the men who are in favor of the 6 week abortion ban know when the week count of a pregnancy actually starts

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7 years

The Pepsi ad is the logical conclusion of all the "cops hugging protesters" photos that get so much play after every instance of brutality

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1 year

Me: What do you guys want to listen to? My child, playing with Barbies: Is there a Barbie song? Me, a millennial: Yes my child. Yes indeed, there is a Barbie song.

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Last 3 weeks: certain defeat This week: slightly better chances Leftists: haha yas coconut queen. Okay let’s get to pushing her on Gaza Smart tweeter: wow I guess you endorse the prison industrial complex now

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4 years

Me: watching Home Alone with my husband Him: I mean, the speed with which this family would be prosecuted...

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4 years

I will be okay! I lost a job that I loved but I’ll be fine. But thousands of kids across New York City just lost a community of educators who care about them, because de Blasio is too cowardly to defund the police and fund youth programming.

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5 years

On The View right now they are complaining about the Trumps and nepotism. At the table are Meghan McCain and Abby Huntsman.

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@mollyknefel

6 years

I feel like we've been doing this over and over since at least 2013. Men are like, "Is this really that big a deal?" Women are like, "Yes, and here's how it's hurt me." Then the next accusation isn't believed and women have to try to prove it with their own pain all over again.

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4 years

There is nothing Trump could ever say that will make the New York Times stop writing headlines like this

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1 year

In lieu of a functioning city government, the people in my Brooklyn neighborhood have helped each other. Carrying each others’ kids across the flood water, clearing the gutters with rakes, school staff helping kids get dry clothes. The solidarity is moving but where tf is Adams

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3 years

I love showing my kids the Charlie Brown specials bc all the media they watch is about kids building each other up, and Peanuts is about Charlie Brown’s friends calling him a piece of shit all the time even though he’s desperately depressed

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5 years

Update: despite her 9/4 due date and 8/28 scheduled c-section, I did indeed have my baby on my brother @johnknefel ’s birthday, 8/23. Please join me and @gideonoliver in welcoming our second kid, Zelda Josephine Oliver, 6 lbs 2 oz and 18 inches, happy and healthy.

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2 years

Tweeting about my own top surgery, which I got as an adult, and the transphobic response is somehow both "that's not the point because think of the CHILDREN" and also "but you shouldn't have done that"

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3 years

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! One year of being MJ. When I was a kid I couldn’t imagine that anyone else felt the way I did, and I cannot believe how hard Republicans are fighting to keep it that way. Thank you to all those fighting for a world where kids can be themselves.

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3 months

Someone is ready to fall out of the coconut tree into the context of all in which she lives

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4 years

New York City just had 20,000 people die due to lack of political leadership and now its police are beating people over the head all over the city

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3 years

I’m “home” from surgery (staying at @johnknefel house for a few days to hide from my enthusiastically physical children) and feeling great. Thank you for all for the kind well wishes. I’m pretty tired so I may not say thank you but I am thankful!

Gideon Orion Oliver

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3 years

Please join me in wishing 👑😍 MJ @mollyknefel 🥰👑 a very happy top surgery day!

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2 years

The kids who will be eligible for 3K next year were all born in 2020. It’s all “kids need socialization” when it comes to dismantling Covid protections in schools, but he wants to cut a public service that creates huge social emotional gains for babies of the pandemic

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Mayor Eric Adams is reassessing how New York City’s so-called 3-K for All program, a top priority of his predecessor, fits into his administration’s strategy.

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9 years

"Final question: name a woman." #GOPDebate

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7 years

@meganganz Extreme love and admiration to you, Megan

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6 years

When you get used to New York City and you leave and go somewhere else you try to walk places and there’s no sidewalks and you end up like scaling the rock garden landscaping of a Comfort Inn

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6 years

Since seeing this tweet I can't stop noticing how many statements are condemning "hate" but not Islamophobia specifically, or saying things like "so much hate in the world" without naming who the targets are

Ayesha A. Siddiqi

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So many “statements” on Christchurch massacre refuse to even say muslims. That it was muslims killed and muslims we need to stand with, that reluctance says a lot about where we’re at.

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I will forever be grateful to Elizabeth Warren for showing the nation what a disgusting clown Mike Bloomberg is. And I truly understand people who feel disappointed that the choices are now 2 old white guys. Please, let’s elect the one who wants free universal healthcare.

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4 years

@foxxi_loxxi Twizzlers

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@mollyknefel

5 years

Think about how much farther Bernie Sanders, and the movement behind him, has taken Medicare for All since 2016.

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@mollyknefel

3 years

Top surgery update: walking around the house shirtless practicing saying, "GET USED TO IT"

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6 years

Am I really watching Mika Brzezinksi discuss whether Sarah Huckabee Sanders is a liar, less than a week after attacking Michelle Wolf for saying so

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4 years

Teachers have spent the last 1-2 decades making contingency plans for where to hide kids during a school shooting and now they’re being told they’re selfish for not wanting to teach in crowded indoor crumbling buildings during a pandemic

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A HUGE piece missing from the relentless panic about gender affirming care for trans kids is the fact that they have such high suicide rates. It’s not that doctors are handing out top surgery, it’s that there’s a medical consensus that we should try to help kids stay alive!

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Why do trans kids have high suicide rates Jesse

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4 years

I’m starting graduate school (online) for school counseling today. My first time being a student in 12 years.

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3 years

Our kids left their neighborhood for the first time since the pandemic, to see the ocean for the first time

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7 years

Good sign

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6 years

The kids killed at Newtown were six. The starving Yemeni girl in the NYT photo was 7. The girl who died in CBP custody was 7. Republicans are violently indifferent to the death of children.

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3 years

Put me and @jacktheworm on the View, cowards

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3 years

Blessing the TL with the kids school pictures that just came in

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5 years

Sleep when the baby sleeps but hold the baby skin to skin when it’s sleeping to facilitate breastfeeding but don’t fall asleep holding the baby but lack of sleep inhibits breastfeeding but don’t do anything but exclusively breastfeed, also get ready to go back to work soon

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@olikolokolo @People4Bernie I've had a baby and I would love to have paid $60 for it, and to have done it in a country with lower maternal mortality rates, like Finland does!

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6 years

We are taking the baby to Brooklyn College to see Grandpa Bernie this morning

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3 years

Five years ago, @gideonoliver and I got married. Best day, best party, and best decision of my life.

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6 years

You all have been talking too much about Ted Bundy and NOT ENOUGH ABOUT THE CAT DOCUMENTARY

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3 years

Me with my kids: gender neutral language as much as possible until they tell us how they feel about their own gender Me with my cats: My king. My sweet little boy. My fierce Queen. My powerful woman.

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Manface Oliver, 2007-2022. The handsomest, largest boy of all. Beloved best friend to his adults, children, and sister Serafina. Pictured here in younger, fluffier times by @felinesofny . We had so much time with him but it still wasn’t enough. We love you, Big Boy.

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4 years

Happy non-binary day! Here is one of my fav pics of myself since becoming a parent, nursing the first kid backstage at my friend’s wedding

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2 months

He should drop out during Trump’s speech! These people need to watch more reality and learn how to be messy bitches

BNO News

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2 months

JUST IN: Several top Democrats believe U.S. President Biden may decide to drop out of 2024 presidential race as soon as this weekend - Axios

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7 years

I hope Democrats remember that they hate what Betsy DeVos is saying, because many of them spent the last 20 years saying the same

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4 years

Happy 1st birthday to our sweet miraculous surprise Zelda, who has lived half her life in a pandemic but is so psyched about the few parts of the world she’s been able to see. I can’t wait to be able to show her more.

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4 years

We must reclaim loving BBQ, beer, and sleeveless shirts from the fascists

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3 years

Having a big realization that people who feel like Chappelle didn't do anything wrong DO believe that jokes are about targeting power, but they think the "twitter mob" is power, obscuring the fact that trans people's very literal right to exist is legally, materially under attack

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7 years

Look at how many women's reaction to the Weinstein stories is identification, and how many men's reaction is shock

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4 years

It is extremely possible to acknowledge the toll the pandemic is taking on children, and the toll that closed schools are taking on children, without blaming teachers and teachers unions

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3 years

Thank you to hero and cyclist @sethmpk for finding the shoe and bringing it to us out of pure generosity and kindness. What a neighborly thing to do. Freddie is giddy.

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6 years

I am too tired to add anything to this

Gideon Orion Oliver

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6 years

Dear friends: Scientists told @mollyknefel and I that we needed to do IVF to have a baby, and so that is how we created Freddie. Please imagine our great surprise when we recently learned they were wrong. Due around September 2019: science said one thing, but

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